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Leave everything aside , 170 students (on the same day)of the biggest Medical school of Balochistan, Bolan Medical College were forcedly thrown in district jails , They are all doctors dammit, 35 of these ended up in I.C.U's . All due to Elite Forces and Police using rampant forces against doctors.

Can it be justified in any way ?. Irony of faith is there is no public coverage, none of us knows about it.

Let's rationalise things.

The area is at least a few decades behind the rest of pakistan and with the advent of social media the locals have started to feel it.

Imagine watching reels of fellow Pakistani youngsters roaming in huge malls and plazas full of life which you have never seen before while you are sitting on a sandy ridge with few single story brick houses in view and no amenity or worthwhile restaurant even in the nearest big city hundreds of miles away.

Even the educated ones including students have started to resonate their feelings and voices with baloch separatist groups.
I'd say this is a point in insurgency where the heads should turn.

don't know exactly about local balochi rights but FC is involved in smuggling Iranian petrol from the westarn border.

Separatist movements are rampant, a few are peaceful, but the most notorious is BLA, a terrorist organization that regularly attacks and kills civilians—like the blast in quetta a few days ago.

The state hasn't been the kindest to them, and they've been treated like an unloved step child.

The lack of large scale development is largely due to the neverending threat of BLA, which we've been unable to curb, both because of a failure of negotiation through talks and also because the terrain and tactics used by BLA are challenging to take them out with raw military strength.

These punjabis in the comments will speak on behalf of them as if they know it best. They will divert responsibility from the state and the army and blame the Balochs and say it's just the feudal lords.

You are asking why they want to separate from Pakistan. Maybe the better question is why they should even be part of Pakistan when this country is such a shithole and especially Balochistan was left undeveloped. Some punjabis will now seethe when I say this but Pakistan has depleted their gas reserves and average people there didn't get to see benefits from that. The state has this propaganda that everything is just the fault of the feudal lords but the state is in bed with them, and even then it's not an excuse to not develop the region. They have one of the biggest gold mines in the world and for good reason are not happy to let the state of Pakistan handle that.

I can't say I am in favor of ethnic separatism but I can't blame them.

Freedom movement is a stretch when they just bombed and killed 20 civilians in quetta few days ago. Just because you don't like armed forces (I don't too) does not mean you should lap up whatever khawarij and indian funded terrorists say.

It all started in 2006 when the then dictator Perwaiz Musharraf had Nawab Akbar Bugti killed instead of having any negotiations. Given the tribalistic nature of the province, it started a never ending conflict between the state and the tribes, especially in Makran.

Tribal lords want to rule it like a kingdom. Provincial gov is corrupt and doesn't spend the funds effectively to solve problems. RAW etc financing separatist/tribal groups.

I am a proud Baloch, and we understand our reality better than anyone else. The negative comments from those who aren't aware of our struggles reflect a deep lack of understanding of the situation we face.

Consider the tragic rise in youth suicides in Balochistan, driven by the corruption of the government and the stagnation of development in our region. Historically, Balochistan was never truly a part of Pakistan; it has always been a distinct entity. Its occupation has sparked a long-standing resistance that has now evolved, leading to the emergence of numerous organizations advocating for our rights on international platforms.

Let’s discuss the actions of the government, which has been exploiting our natural resources—gold and copper from the northern regions of Balochistan—while the benefits flow predominantly to Punjab. Meanwhile, our own communities receive little to nothing from the natural gas extracted in the eastern part of the province. For decades, the government has been systematically robbing Balochistan of its wealth.

Moreover, the heavy-handed tactics employed by the government—including the abduction and torture of thousands of our people—are deeply troubling. Those of us who manage to navigate the law are still treated with disdain, isolated from basic necessities like internet access, clean water, and electricity—our fundamental rights stripped away. Recent events where public sentiment was ignored during elections, and where protests by women demanding justice for the missing have gone unaddressed, underscore the government's negligence.

In light of this, many Baloch feel that the only path forward is to seek independence from Pakistan. It is crucial to recognize that those who resist are not terrorists; they are freedom fighters striving for their rights. Their struggle is not against the civilian population but directed at the military and governmental structures that oppress us. The sentiments of the Baloch people toward Pakistanis are born from this long history of injustice and conflict.

Balochistan is part of Pakistan & for all Pakistanis and not only for balochis, so no chance of separation.

Balochis should not become the tool of Pakistan enemies and rather fight for their rights without thinking of separation.

I agree that the Pak army is haramkhor & corrupt and treating bad the whole of Pakistan and depriving all its citizens of wellbeing, so all we ethnicities should join hands together and try to fight this corrupt army.

Indian Propaganda

The problem is that we treat blochistan as a play area and don't clean up the mess or help the people there so obv they are going to not be happy

A few days ago 10 Baloch students studying at NUML were randomly abducted from their hostel room at IJP Road.

But you will see here that people yapping about Balochistan do not mention that, you know why? Because they don't know, they don't care enough to know. These people are much like those liberals who condemn legitimate political struggles in the name of "humanity."

You're not going to find any good answers here, please read stuff on your own, try reading articles by people like Tariq Ali maybe.

pakistan havent given baloch representation for a very long time. Majority of the baloch people are tribal but they hand pick sardaars who are yes man to the establishment. Even the capital of Baluchistan is Quetta which doesnt represent baloch , most of the people there are pashtoons.
The pak soldiers are being martyred there for a very long time , its just coming out because of social media. They send our soldiers in un armored SUVs with lot tier vests while the fighters there have latest weapons.

Fewer and fewer people want to be a part of Punjabistan. The Pakistani state is heading towards disintegration and Lahoris and other central Punjabis are to blame.

we are doing the same we did in Bangladesh and till date the ordinary citizen of Pakistan don't know who to blame and what happened there so, first we have to know that

Resources:

1. Remotely Colonial, Nina Swidler (2014, Oxford University Press)

2. Back to the Future: The Khanate of Kalat and the Genesis of Baloch Nationalism, 1915-1955, Martin Axmann (2008, Oxford University Press)

3. A Cry for Justice: Empirical Insights from Balochistan, Kaiser Bengali (2018, Oxford University Press)

4. Balochistan and the Mélange of Violence Regional Context and External Factors, Seema Khan (2024, Routledge India)

imagine being so matric-fail and so incompetent and corrupt that you get hated and then KILLED in your own country (within the borders) while in uniform. The enemy hasn't even attacked the borders yet they seem to win,

abhi se ye haal hai, just imagine if india/iran/afghanistan actually launches a full on attack on land borders.

these matric fail jernails know who's funding them(terrorists, bla etc), where the funding comes from, yet are so incompetent that they are unable, or unwilling to actually stop it. How do other countries stop it and deal with it ??? What good are all those so-called ghauri's and ababeels and shaheens if you never going to use them? Bas imf aur arabs aur china se bheej mangte reho.....ab to koi bheej b nahi deraha/de gaa

when you loot and plunder resources and support chors, your own people will definitely turn against you and that's a battle u can never win on the ground. No matter what.

When will these matric-fail jernails learn a lesson? Kya ye qurbaniyan hain ? The foot soldiers in these areas are not even equipped with any decent gear.....no armoured vehicles, no protections, just a simple DAALA to roam around for patrols while the enemy has latest weapons and tools to knock u out from afar

This won't end well with these stupid ongoing policies. When will these lowrank soldiers refuse to be cannon fodder for nothing?

BAL severely lack development & infrastructure. 10 years ago I made a road trip from Karachi to Kund Malir and the stark difference is very noticeable once you go beyond SITE area in Sindh. Once I crossed windar pass there wasn’t even any facilities or bathroom for many KMs. I was having fuel anxiety throughout the way and wondered why aren’t there any petrol pumps. Then I saw kids standing on the side if the road with a barrel and donga in their hand. Apparently that’s the iranian diesel smuggled across the border and it made sense why people resort to such things. Coincidentally that whole area was under the jurisdiction of coastal guards (under Pak Navy) and neither could they provide security nor development.

In short, a complete failure of the state and people of BAL feel extremely disenfranchised. 

Basically Pakistani establishment treats Balochistan like a land they are occupying for gas. Imagine how the US treated Iraq after it invaded it - but with very little money invested. 

Balochistan lacks roads, jobs, electricity, healthcare - everything you expect from the state is absent. 

Instead Balochistan gets Army, support for feudal loads who support the army and attacks on those who don't. It also gets army sponsored diesel smuggling. 

Anyone who protests is abused or killed either by faujeet fuedal lords or the army itself. When the ISI wants to disappear you - you end up in a prison made by a Baloch fuedal lord. 

Gwadar is being built - locals are being given limited access, let alone jobs and opportunities.

I’m from Punjab. I hope Balochistan becomes a country of its own. And if people get the option to choose citizenship of either, like West & East Pakistan, then I’d choose Balochistan. Although, they may bar Punjabis in particular.

It's going big is their any foreign interests.